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@QuarterLifeCrises 2 года назад

Normal people: "hey A4 sheets fold in half and maintain the exact ratio. Cool!" CGPGrey, having his fifth existential crisis this week: "Everything is mostly nothing."

@oliverhumphreys8141 2 года назад

why

@sheeloesreallycool 2 года назад

@@oliverhumphreys8141 Who knows? Why have we done anything? Why do we focus so much on this size of paper when there are planets that must be discovered? People to meet? We could’ve done so much, but our own limits we have created have stopped us.

@oliverhumphreys8141 2 года назад

@@sheeloesreallycool ah

@alamrasyidi4097 2 года назад

"It all~ returns~ to nothing~"

@dethor6251 2 года назад

@@sheeloesreallycool human knowlage and curiosity what else

@kpatch410 3 года назад

"What are you watching?" "...mostly nothing."

@tydev2305 2 года назад

He isn’t wrong

@donottrustanyonelol 2 года назад

dont let this distract you from the absolute fact that bungee gum has both the properties of rubber and gum

@proild 2 года назад

This statement is true regardless of what exactly you're watching.

@oliverhumphreys8141 2 года назад

why

@Xnoob545 2 года назад

@@donottrustanyonelol in Lithuanian rubber and gum is the same word

@juancuelloespinosa Год назад

I always find it interesting that there are more subdivisions down than we have doublings up. the planck length is at 226, where the observable universe ends at 184

@bioemiliano Год назад

Yeah, we are in the larger part of the middle of everything.

@zanorok5896 Год назад

Well I mean it's based off a piece of paper so that doesn't really mean much tbh

@Qaptyl Год назад

proportionally, our cells are in the middle

@TheBswan Год назад

@@zanorok5896 sure it does; it means that on a log scale from planck length to observable universe, a piece of paper is on the larger half of that scale. Many people might find that surprising, as the person who commented that did.

@-sprb Год назад

226-184=42 2^42=4 trillion😳 2^226=107 unvigintillion 2^184=24 septendecillion

@-E-M-C- Год назад

Paper getting infinitely small: Has an existential crisis Paper getting infinitely big: *Has an existential crisis*

@botston 2 года назад

Smallest metric: here is something that is actually nothing The largest metric: here is nothing that is actually everything

@jcxz983 2 года назад

Also, mostly nothing.

@GodSpeedx0 2 года назад

Damn...

@keithdolderer8391 2 года назад

** The largest metric: here is nothing that is actually something

@ethanwalsh5441 2 года назад

🙌🏻

@sarthaksharma4816 2 года назад

@Noah H most likely. I guess.

@4dri129 3 года назад

Came for cool paper facts. Left with existential dread.

@chriku 3 года назад

now imagine looking at A4 every single day!

@Spartan-Four-Twenty 3 года назад

Dido

@edvardsauzins7041 3 года назад

I don't think living is important anymore... maybe it's all... maybe everything we do is for nothing.. maybe there's no point in living at all.

@GreenFoxLuama 3 года назад

@@edvardsauzins7041 , but however, you only live once. You only get to experience your own existence for only one time, so try to live happily, make the most of it and don't be an asshole to anyone around you

@dahemac 3 года назад

😆

@MCjossic Год назад

What I liked most about this is that a) I learned that A0 paper exists, b) it is a satisfying, perfect 1m^2

@agumon1605 Год назад

Yeah usually used in huge posters and architecture working drawings

@Delibro Год назад

I thought you learn that as a small kid when you ask: "Why is it called A4 and not A37?" :)

@blakksheep736 Год назад

It is also made of mostly nothing.

@gabrielkind2970 Год назад

1m x 1.41m akchully

@Delibro Год назад

@@gabrielkind2970 No! A0 has 1 m² area. That is 0.841 × 1.189 m

@fredthepenguin6539 Год назад

This video makes me realize how much of a giant I am, bigger than so many things, but it makes me realize how tiny I am, and how earth is basically a quark inside an atom inside a grain of sand in a desert the size of a galaxy

@agnetalykins7564 Год назад

Going further, that galaxy-sized desert is itself but a quark within the grain of sand that is our galactic cluster. Within the great desert that is the observable universe. And beyond, as the video states, for who knows how long.

@BaronRodney Год назад

@@agnetalykins7564 Terrifying is not what there is to be afraid of but is instead the inability to comprehend the unknown.

@Moj1989 3 года назад

"Hey Grey, look at this sheet of paper for a second." Grey: (transcends reality)

@Altrantis 3 года назад

CHIM

@Shaymin0 3 года назад

there is no reality to transend for there is nothing. in the smallest virtues of reality we see nothing and from the farthest reaches beyond our comprehension, there is nothing.

@Shaymin0 3 года назад

@Luís Andrade That is true! our current understanding of nothing is the lack of existence there is if there is a theoretical measurement of nothing and emptiness then that nothing becomes an ever-expanding ball of something in the distance of what we perceive as the reaches that our lights can't even see. So therefore in nothing, there is always the possibility of something so something will always exist in our existence.

@mariusdesu1633 3 года назад

doctor: what you see in this picture Grey: a sheet of paper, to be exact a metric paper on which is everything that is made of nothing...

@rrezonkrasniqi 3 года назад

@@Shaymin0 Why do you assume that in nothing is always the possibility of something, maybe there is true nothing but you can't comprehend it?

@YuutaShinjou113 2 года назад

"A4 x 2⁵²" could be enough to stop an asteroid. Paper beats rock.

@aidtim1350 2 года назад

How many zeros is that number

@aidtim1350 2 года назад

@@throwawaty5575 thanks

@vetle9399 2 года назад

@@throwawaty5575 15 zeros*

@throwawaty5575 2 года назад

@@vetle9399 I believe the number in the top right denotes the number of zeros. Correct me if I’m wrong though.

@andreamiele5842 2 года назад

@@throwawaty5575 only if the base is 10

@chughes156 Год назад

Love the re-use of "Illusion of something solid" at two completely different scales: A4 x 2^(-76) and 2^140

@dorol6375 Год назад

And "the reality of x, it is made of mostly nothing."

@ultimatelaserkid Год назад

Man really explained the entire universe and nothingness with a piece of A4 paper.

@91thewatcher23 3 года назад

Grey 10 years ago: "So this is why we should get rid of pennies" Grey now: "After studying a sheet of paper, I've been reminded that everything is nothing, everything we've ever known and loved is all foggy shapes in the ethereal."

@benjaminzerr6708 3 года назад

Grey 10 years from now: "....

@NN-mh4bj 3 года назад

@@benjaminzerr6708 "hovers above ground ominously"

@obsideonyx7604 3 года назад

@@NN-mh4bj **speaks in reverse**

@moxsedai 3 года назад

Grey 4 months ago: hexagons are the bestagons

@Drake00075 3 года назад

I bet reading a book upside down is a simple enough challenge for him now.

@NintendoNerd64 2 года назад

“look at this sheet of paper” *8 minutes later* “we are now at the edge of the universe”

@mariatpena7638 2 года назад

*mind blown*

@richard6196 2 года назад

We got taken for a ride for sure.

@simon-pierrelussier2775 2 года назад

And that happens to be how long it took photons to leave the photosphere of the sun and reach earth.

@dahscreamingeagle3473 2 года назад

well that escalated very quickly

@Mrityunjay7 2 года назад

@@simon-pierrelussier2775 If that was intended then I believe Grey is the best story teller I have seen

@jacksonritchie7672 Год назад

I don’t think I’ll be able to look at a sheet of paper again without having an existential, gut-wrenching reality check

@wolfrock04 Год назад

“Sir this is a Wendy’s.”

@lucystarlight8887 3 года назад

I'm not sure what this video was supposed to teach me but I'll be more careful around paper from now on

@AmphiStuG 2 года назад

Be afraid, for the forever lost consciousness of a tree now has the infinite power of the metric system, it’s forever expanding laws and space seek for either the simple destruction of our very existence, or the complete replacement of all matter that exists or ever will exist. Be afraid... be afraid.

@aura_flower3385 2 года назад

@@AmphiStuG, uhh what? Explain in simpler terms please?

@aura_flower3385 2 года назад

@laith, nope, I got nothing srry

@aura_flower3385 2 года назад

@laith, oh wow. Ok then

@matthewhale1572 2 года назад

@@aura_flower3385 it was a joke

@thonatmo7073 3 года назад

If you didnt have an existential crisis in the first half, don't worry, CgpGrey got you in the second half

@JustaGuy12347 3 года назад

nah

@user-rc8bb7yb1e 3 года назад

nope i don't have existential crisises on any video

@grabthecrucifixband4203 3 года назад

Yeah you’re just weak minded.

@Lafayette-hk2gd 3 года назад

He hits you with the double whammy

@grabthecrucifixband4203 3 года назад

@@onxiaftw you don’t use big words with small words in the same sentence that’s just stupidence.

@mfbfreak Год назад

The speed of light being described as heartbreakingly slow really speaks to me. There is so much cool stuff in the universe, but even at the fastest conceivable speed, almost all of it will forever be out of range.

@Quartz512_ Год назад

3:45 if I'm right, if we would fold a paper to that little, it would be taller than the observable universe

@ChadrickNurn 3 года назад

"I need a way of describing reality" *looks down at blank paper* "I've got it!" -CGP Grey, overcoming writers block by embracing it

@geordonworley5618 3 года назад

Writers block...metric paper...metric block!

@ForteFaiey 3 года назад

great

@user-yc3tf4wz2x 3 года назад

‎

@BatCostumeGuy 3 года назад

Batman

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад

A blank sheet of paper has always been inspiring, but it takes a certain kind of mind to see it in a different way.

@chessplayer6632 3 года назад

**Starts zooming out from the plank length** “Ok, maybe he will stop making me have a crisis” **Starts doubling paper** “Oh no”

@rawtoast7719 3 года назад

Same I feel like I am going to cry

@mmagnenat 3 года назад

Just wait until he does a video on the C and the B formats...

@emmanueltidor1996 3 года назад

Anyways.

@Polarthief 3 года назад

If you didn't expect him to go the other way, idk what to tell you

@graceoartyo 3 года назад

the crisis only got worse

@ruthstewart5242 Год назад

I wasn’t aware I was about to go on an existential journey guided by a piece of paper but there it is…

@NoahRamseysGhost 5 месяцев назад

If I had a dime for every time Grey changed the title or thumbnail of this video, I’d be able to afford a channel membership. Oh wait!

@grassguy1154 3 года назад

*"S-Sir... All I wanted to know is if you wanted the receipt..."*

@grim1044 3 года назад

Oof

@mayberus7612 3 года назад

This made me lohle

@kilianfirebolt 3 года назад

Sir this is a wendys >:I

@cadainn3718 3 года назад

this made me chuckle

@lux5164 3 года назад

A cvs receipt is longer than the width of the observable universe

@donatoliotino1872 3 года назад

It's sad CGP Grey had to leave the observable universe to make this.

@LeoStaley 3 года назад

Ya but he came back

@xnob_1670 3 года назад

His rocket must have been huge

@devaorios5793 3 года назад

this is gold wooosh bait

@uknownada 3 года назад

Yet he didn't tell us what he found there. He told us mostly nothing.

@thegreatestchigone5813 3 года назад

@@uknownadait’s cause he discovered the universe aren’t hexagons

@devilish8130 Год назад

Is it just me, or would anyone else love to experience this in VR

@bloodykenshiro8218 Год назад

All hail A4, all hail the metric system! Seriously though. I don't know if this video is meant to be poetic or an existentialist piece, but I love it, for sure.

@stormninjabros025 2 года назад

"You can only fold a sheet of paper in half 6 times. No more than that." CGP Grey: ...and now we're at the Planck length.

@IncredibleMD 2 года назад

A perfect example between the difference between practical and theoretical mathematics.

@zypity 2 года назад

True, though you could also make the argument he cuts them in half, which is - as docincredible remarks - theoretically (near) infinitely possible.

@Shockblade95 2 года назад

I just folded it 7 times sure it doesn't have its ratio anymore, but still

@definitelynotjustasquirrel8319 2 года назад

The world record is twelve. Its a myth that the size and thickness don’t matter.

@davidmartensson273 2 года назад

@@definitelynotjustasquirrel8319 Exactly, its just that halving the thickness only gives you one more fold, and a paper is so thin that its hard to make it thin enough to fold it many more times. If you make it larger you can do it, but still, if its to thin it will break instead of fold, so its a matter of physics and material. I think aluminium foil should be foldable more times since its thinner than most paper but I have not tried it.

@SquillyBR 3 года назад

"This is a normal sheet of paper." "-Or is it?" *Vsauce music plays*

@teainnit27 3 года назад

Ngl CPGray doing a collaboration video with Michael Stevens would be so cool.

@exxelsetijadi5348 3 года назад

"what defines something as a sheet ?"

@intelligent1964 3 года назад

HEY VSAUCE MICHAEL HERE

@skiller5034 3 года назад

Or "This is just a normal sheet of paper, right? WRONG! it contains the key to the universe, from the smallest things, to the largest." (@FurretWalc Kurzgesagt)

@gvc7314 3 года назад

Props ro the camera man who tool a picture of the observable universe and the milky way last to the guy in 3021 who found a another part of observable universe trillions of light years away

@Anonymous-sb9rr Год назад

A4/2^64 could also just be called A68. Not a very common paper size, but well defined.

@loststylus7641 Год назад

This video is very powerful for understanding everything we are as far as scaling goes, but also just goes to show how our own scale, where we live and observe, is really the most important to us because it fits us. The rest of this stuff we know exists, but will never truly observe or understand, at least for a very long time. The things on our scale are explained with our communication, using the senses that are tuned for this level of understanding. Look what we’ve done with the scale we’ve been given, the scale we are bound to. We have limits, but do we really know where they are? The limits haven’t stopped our own expansion of understanding, and unlike a lot of other levels, our scale is full of life, compared to the vast nothingness on both ends. If nothing matters on both ends where nothing happens, I wanna stay where things do happen and I can bring myself to comprehend, but I think that’s more easily said, and I’m probably pretty ignorant compared to what things could be but I just wanna say to those who are having existential crises that it’s not a concern and will never be a concern, in our lifetime. And if it is we can cross that bridge when we get to it.

@Talik13 3 года назад

CGP Grey: "In conclusion, I like A4 paper."

@YALMSL 3 года назад

I like A999 paper

@Jay_Johnson 3 года назад

@@YALMSL I like A-140

@Robstar0 3 года назад

Maybe he should study a course about brevity 🤣

@marcolinosalgarone9442 3 года назад

the end is not true, if we can't see out we can' t tell what there is out: could be other universes less than a centimeter from our universe

@user-kx8pu6ys5i 3 года назад

Paper

@The-Rest-of-Us 3 года назад

I came here for light entertainment. I left with an existential crisis.

@atchaaa 3 года назад

yep

@rovsea-3761 3 года назад

You need not fear an existential crisis such as this. Personally, I find it almost more freeing that we may be utterly insignificant in the scale of the universe, observable or otherwise. I think it allows us to set our own limits, our own expectations, rather than trying to find some sort of universal expectation of what should be.

@YouTubeGetsWorseEveryUpdate 3 года назад

Well, there is mostly nothing to worry about.

@blagoevski336 3 года назад

Lol

@AMA-Online 3 года назад

Part of me agrees with you but the other part is left infinitely hopeful.

@mmmmine5439 Год назад

The concept of the infinite rectangle ratio is huge in the Steel Ball Run manga. I recommend it to manga fans!

@aosper4350 Год назад

The most fascinating thing about his videos is that they are so mind blowing and amazing that it makes you less regret on watching RU-vid videos.

@the-sands-of-time 2 года назад

Normal people: "Hey, could you hand me a sheet of paper?" CGP Grey: *contemplates life, existence, and nothingness*

@abhishekaggarwal6473 2 года назад

CGP Grey is on steroids

@skeeter.1017 2 года назад

How can a piece of paper give me stress I never felt befor

@MrMischelito 2 года назад

Epic and philisophical

@bloodnivel70 2 года назад

No such thing as nothingness, please drop this facile cynical nihilism mindset.

@Ushankan 2 года назад

yeah about that i still have a question nobody can answer: Why is i? why is us? why is existence?

@get_a_grip_4209 3 года назад

POV: your philosophy teacher when you ask for another piece of paper

@doapin6240 3 года назад

Lmao

@Jawsomest 3 года назад

Lmao

@toivowelling 3 года назад

Lmao

@NicoandIndy Год назад

I think Grey went insane during quarantine, this scares me, and I don’t get scared unless it’s something like this

@CoDkiller1888 Год назад

Just came here to learn something about metric paper. Now I am having an existential crisis, thinking about reality pixels and the endless void.

@theexchipmunk Год назад

Yeah, and that everything we experience is mostly nothing with a very thin cloud of things that barely even exist masquerading as something.

@lancelotofsadblackwolf_yt6222 3 года назад

I'm impressed that a piece of paper would give someone an existential crisis.

@skelpix5449 3 года назад

Ok???

@favioferreira8921 3 года назад

This is CGP Grey, the guy who became fixated with hexagons for a while, and who went on a crusade to find out who owns Staton Island.

@mcrailroader9518 3 года назад

I feel like CGP Grey can have an existential crisis over anything.

@Jawsomest 3 года назад

Yo Mama!

@benjaminpainter378 3 года назад

I read this comment before and after watching the video. It didn't make sense before, but boy did it hit hard after.

@Venotix 3 года назад

So what you're saying is.. this perfectly-shaped rectangle... is the bestangle?

@pinkneko13 3 года назад

No such thing, hexagon is bestagon.

@tomrogue13 3 года назад

@@pinkneko13 not bestagon. Bestangle

@challengerjj9760 3 года назад

You may multiply multiple hexagonal bits to tile t-wards infinity as well

@lourdthebluefoxie 3 года назад

Lol

@gaboversta2.423 3 года назад

it has the one thing the bestagon doesn't, it divides into itself. So it should be the bestangle

@ItsmehAlfa Год назад

Gyro... This was the reason for lesson 5... Thank you. I cannot express any other word. THE PERFECT GOLDEN ROTATION ENERGY!

@Nebulisuzer Год назад

1. golden rotation isn't a thing 2. it's 1:sqrt(2), not 1:(sqrt(5)+1)/2

@mostfinnishperson Год назад

@@Nebulisuzer its a jojo reference

@ULTRAMUERTE_ULTRAKILLJOJO Год назад

@@Nebulisuzer we know, but its a jojo reference

@patyo Год назад

@@Nebulisuzer 🙄

@effect0031 Год назад

I really thought it is going to be like how did they come up with this system...I didn't expect this at all.

@Weazle13XIII 3 года назад

Fun fact: the house Grey is in doesn't exist. That location has a building holds a gas company and a telecommunications provider.

@shalomakolatse537 3 года назад

That’s interesting!

@birbthetopicman2851 3 года назад

How did you find this out?

@Weazle13XIII 3 года назад

@@birbthetopicman2851 Zoomed in on maps to the rough area in England based on the river shown in vid, found the location based on the streets and buildings shown. biggest clues were the trident shaped road to the south-east, the two circular roads in the north corners, and the blobby shaped building next door to Grey

@Yorie1234 3 года назад

I was wondering that, i couldn't imagine he'd use his real house

@vale.antoni 3 года назад

@@Yorie1234 The place he used was in the kind of borough called "City of London" (It's not technically part of the UK's capital city called London) It's one of the densest built, and has the tallest skyscrapers in the region Also has been around for so long, noone actually knows how long it has been around for.

@robertli3600 3 года назад

Kutzergast: Our videos cause existential crises CGP grey: Hold my bees

@marafolse8347 3 года назад

Truly an admirable attempt at spelling curts-gay-socked

@theyoten1613 3 года назад

Pls don't hold bees.

@Commandelicious 3 года назад

@@marafolse8347 KURZ GESAGT ACHTUNG!

@presidentbanana4536 3 года назад

It's Kurzgesagt

@Kingatje 3 года назад

Why stop at that spelling! Go all the way: Kotsergast = puker guy in Dutch! (Yes, we left German behind)

@jensschroder8214 Год назад

I have never sent such small or such large paper letters. But an A4 letter folded twice fits nicely in a C6 envelope. Because A4 paper is folded twice, it is A6 size.

@FrogFood8587 Год назад

Not very often does a video about such a mundane topic bring me such existential dread. Great video!

@koldkilla777 3 года назад

"... so anyways, welcome to Kinkos. What size paper did you want me to copy this onto again?"

@Qwertytsuna 3 года назад

The size of the observable universe

@micobob2883 3 года назад

@@Qwertytsuna I accidentally folded it, it’s now half the observable universe.

@Mikeological 3 года назад

"Yeah, can I get that in A184 please?"

@koldkilla777 3 года назад

@@micobob2883 congrats, you've just folded space time and created a wormhole!

@wesleymays1931 3 года назад

A -184 please

@Tay-tt2gy 3 года назад

Teacher: Okay, class, please take out your A4 sheets of paper and fold them in half. CGP Grey: ...this A4 is a door... to the exponential spiral of everything...

@Barneyfromhalflife1 3 года назад

that will A5 mr

@user-qq1xj5zk9n 3 года назад

A5 then A6 And so on The Spiral Of insanity continues

@republicofgamers9842 3 года назад

Sadly we only have 8 proper sizings, A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, and A7.

@imaadakram5624 Год назад

this has sent me into a rabbit hole keep doing what your doing man! 😄

@mafe2233 Год назад

This is my favorite video from RU-vid, i always come back for a rewatch

@veritasium 3 года назад

I mean you *think* it takes a second for light to reach the moon...

@hobogrifter 3 года назад

I didn't expect to see you here

@Infinatus25 3 года назад

What's your point? Edit: Ok ok I get it people, we don't "actually" know the speed of light, just how long it takes to get from point A to point A after bouncing off of point B.

@russianacorns8080 3 года назад

@@hobogrifter you didn’t? These channels are both sciencey channels that explain things that are very hard to understands lol

@hobogrifter 3 года назад

@@russianacorns8080 lol, I didn't think he was a cgp Gray fan. I thought he just watched smarter every day and vsauce

@Max-oi9zm 3 года назад

But there is no moon

@giosanpedro 3 года назад

I... just became an A4 convert. It's been nice letter size 🙋‍♂️

@abemulligantralz8806 3 года назад

why are you here

@Glace1221 3 года назад

I converted after the Hexagonism video

@user-yc3tf4wz2x 3 года назад

‎

@tech99070 3 года назад

Yeah that's... not how life works? Like, are you planning to move? Buy your office a new printer? What exactly do you mean by "convert"????

@peacewalker3344 3 года назад

@@tech99070 it means he'a gonna use metric paper for printing purposes from now on i guess which is great, metric system makes everything better

@airbender460 Год назад

Watching it back again.... I like the subtle foreshadowing in the print examples. Well played.

@MiguelSilvaX Год назад

The real problem is when you fold a sheet of paper, you halve it's length but you double it's thickness, so folding it 2^100 times would give it a spike with almost zero "lengh" and unimaginable "thickness" of ~2^98 meters - you would need a very thick folder :)

@leemsvg 3 года назад

Conclusion: "damn that is a large sheet of paper"

@Uarehere 2 года назад

And apparently, the universe should be called A^-184.

@guilhermesartorato93 2 года назад

@@Uarehere Now I'm thinking of how many A-184 cardboard walls a box should have to contain it, since a six-walls box won't do the job - for being just tridimensional.

@Derpy-qg9hn 2 года назад

@@guilhermesartorato93 There is the change from 1 to 6. Six times. 36 walls for a four-dimensional box, perhaps?

@No.1_Ulynona_Fan 2 года назад

@@Uarehere your galaxy should be called A4x2144

@No.1_Ulynona_Fan 2 года назад

Yes I’m at a different galaxy rn okay just don’t question it

@derinedala5032 3 года назад

Me, an Australian who grew up with this kind of paper: yeah our paper system is the best, I know exactly what this video is going to be about. CGP: The organs of the bee... Me: Whelp, I was wrong.

@Neojhun 3 года назад

It was at Reality Pixel aka Planck Length I realized we got duped. This was going to be an existential crisis ride.

@Nalehw 3 года назад

...Wait, you mean not every country uses the A4 system?

@Neojhun 3 года назад

@@Nalehw Huh Letter is still very popular. I thought both was still a thing.

@mymoomin0952 3 года назад

@@Nalehw America is always the exception for metric Plus sometimes Canada, a few other countries in the Americas, and the Phillipines

@derinedala5032 3 года назад

@@Nalehw Americans have a bunch of weirdly shaped paper sizes with no relation to each other.

@underthesurfacemovies Год назад

This is the video, that convinced me to set up a Patreon account and join the Bonnie Bees. Absolutely outstanding!

@ZOMBIII-I Год назад

thanks for letting me know that everything is so small, yet so big at the same time

@nekomakhea9440 3 года назад

"Sir, this is a Wendy's drive through. You're blocking the other customers."

@panchor 3 года назад

Lmfao

@elijah_9392 3 года назад

Creating a snake effect :)

@snorkeyrules 3 года назад

Sir! Sir Please!!

@Marquis-Sade 3 года назад

Why is this "its a wendys" comment so popular right now? I read this on every other video

@LZRMonkey249 3 года назад

Why am I not surprised this joke Is here

@Spritesuit 3 года назад

Beginning of the video: A paper ratio that easily scales! End of the video: Existential dread!

@ddcc5560 3 года назад

Exactly correct

@cindynguyen4516 3 года назад

Precisely

@DrDrake-kz7js 3 года назад

Exactly

@dshapiro2518 3 года назад

But why is this an existential crisis?

@evanjohnson1299 3 года назад

Grey is what you call a lateral thinker.

@GK-pt9vf Год назад

The most satisfying video, I have come across! Didn't expected the metric paper video will navigate me to a microscopic cosmos.

@aspiringwayfarer Год назад

this is *not* where i thought this video would go. amazing and breathtaking. thank you.

@samueloconner1482 2 года назад

I've seen many scale of the universe videos but never one that was filled with such a sense of cosmic horror

@sarah12232 2 года назад

try the video on size of black holes by kurzgesagt

@avcables_ 2 года назад

And paper.

@eg_manifest510 2 года назад

same, he perfectly encapsulates that feeling of innate, inescapable dread he should be a horror writer

@1989Nihil 2 года назад

Indeed, this video was soo deep I got a paper-cut from it.

@lorrainewilliams7896 2 года назад

This was positively uplifting compared to Kurzgesagt.

@vlogbrothers 3 года назад

Now THIS is my kind of party. -John

@evanpearson2612 3 года назад

factually frustrating though, for ex. his inaccurate description of Planck length.

@askplays 3 года назад

wow

@HasanSawan 3 года назад

Existential angst party!

@Univarman 3 года назад

@@evanpearson2612 What did he say that was incorrect?

@amanatee27 3 года назад

@Tanekoshima 6 месяцев назад

This is the type of visualization that makes me realize I'm much more interested in the vastness of space than the infinitely compact void of Atoms and quarks and such. I get that it's fascinating but imagining that, ultimately, matter is just what makes up our existence, and outer space IS our existence, waiting to be explored, fills me with a sense of impossible wanderlust that, honestly, is scary, but very peaceful at the same time. I know I'll never be able to go explore space like Star Trek or Mass Effect, but that's why it brings me peace to know that I might as well enjoy my time here, pondering and wondering and contemplating, thinking that somewhere out there there might be a similar being possibly pondering the same thing I am.

@Igor-ug1uo Год назад

I remember this music from an old video with the same concept - zooming in and out. It's nice to hear it again watching this.

@saims.2402 3 года назад

Moral of the story: the fastest known object is the camera zooming away from CGP Grey’s desk.

@estiaanj8425 3 года назад

It’s both the slowest moving object, fastest moving object and fastest accelerating object in different parts of the video

@rashkavar 3 года назад

Grey has quite an arm, doesn't he.

@BatCostumeGuy 3 года назад

Lies, my batcopter is faster.

@5daboz 3 года назад

Technically, problem of space-"travel" is a problem of space-"time" and if you can just switch places (like with quantum entanglement) then you arent faster, but you are timeless. Then there is a bored teenager that just wants to watch his latest spaceshow from the other side of the galaxy but cant because his device is broken and he/she is pissed why the hell it wont do that one job it is designed for, worthless.

@staticcactus6029 3 года назад

@@5daboz actually photons themself are timeless. they experience all of time at one time, from the moment of there creation to the moment they cease, all is as one moment for them. the interior of black holes is more apt, as time becomes space itself, and space becomes time as we know it.

@aljax6800 3 года назад

You know, at least when kuercragzat gives me existential dread, they at least show me cute birds

@SurnSensei 3 года назад

maybe you meant kurzgesagt

@Aminal321 3 года назад

Kurzgesagt not "kuercragzat"

@Morningstar_37 3 года назад

@@Aminal321 Maybe he meant kuercragzat

@Morningstar_37 3 года назад

But CGP Grey has Bees

@thunderboltpoplays1177 3 года назад

@@SurnSensei kurzgesagt is very hard to spell, its resonable he spelled it wrong

@oswaldlong9044 Год назад

Excellent! A (micro/macro)-cosmic view of the Universe. Classically and wonderfully done.

@dwcscca Год назад

Brilliant. Wonderfully done. Thank you.

@LGR 3 года назад

...so I'm honestly impressed metric paper folds in half to the same ratio.

@vilmarmoccelin 3 года назад

Welcome to the magical world of metric thinking... They're trying to connect everything.

@Melesniannon 3 года назад

That one is pretty common knowledge for anyone who's worked with any kind of office supplies, you'll typically see A4 all over the place, A5 a fair bit, some A3. What made me go "Wha, really?" is that A0 is exactly 1 square metre.

@_.luminosity._ 3 года назад

very cool

@damianpulido4712 3 года назад

Fibonacci Fibonacci Fibonacci

@damianpulido4712 3 года назад

I know it's not the Fibonacci sequence exactly but it looks similar enough

@frankthetank2550 3 года назад

This video is what would happen if Vsauce focused on one topic for more than a minute

@82ayalaj 3 года назад

Me thoughts exactly. Very reminiscence from the classic vsauce

@geckowizard9058 3 года назад

Content of video: if you made a really big piece of paper......... uuuhhh...... it would be really big! (it's sad that anyone could find this interesting)

@savwaltz5187 3 года назад

He forgot the most essential element of Vsauce..... But why? *Vsauce music intensifies*

@gabevietor3685 3 года назад

@@geckowizard9058 It's not the paper that we care about, it's the things we compare it to, and how easy it is to move so fast from something to nothing.

@bbittercoffee 3 года назад

@@geckowizard9058 It's sad anyone finds any marvel movie entertaining, it's all fake, really. Or that people find any games entertaining, it's all pixels, really. It's sad that anybody lives life, we barely matter in the bigger picture of the universe, really. It's sad that you try to make people feel bad about themselves for enjoying a video made to be enjoyed.

@commandrogyne Год назад

With so much nothing on all sides, inward and outward, how wonderful is it that we exist at the same scale? The vast, unknowable reaches of space are dark and empty, but here on a little ball of mud we have warmth, and light, and cats. Happy new years everyone.

@devinbates1461 Год назад

I love this video so much. Never stop, you beautiful man.

@shaunhurst2595 2 года назад

Psychiatrist: What do you see when you look at the A4 paper? CGP Grey: Folding the paper make the same size ratio as its original...we're all lambs to the cosmic slaughter.

@J4WURSED 2 года назад

Ha i got that reference

@Banana_boat 2 года назад

@@J4WURSED I don't. Care to explain.

@PatricioHondagneuRoig 2 года назад

@@Banana_boat Rick and Morty's "true level"

@Substance2020 Год назад

Psychiatrist: If you're not screaming in terror then you are insane. Those who aren't screaming are the insane ones.

@TheSonicsean 3 года назад

2:27 "where hexagonal arrangements..." Because of course they're bloody hexagons.

@marinescu0511 3 года назад

My heart jumped in fear, thinking he would go on another bestagons rant

@CGPGrey 3 года назад

@Awkairo 3 года назад

@@CGPGrey No words needed.

@pikachu-jf2oh 3 года назад

@@CGPGrey praise the hexagon!

@capitalm417 3 года назад

@@CGPGrey could not have been more true

@Warshava_ Год назад

I really cannot say what fascinates me the most, either the extreme smallness of stuff and what is everything made of at every level or the immenseness of the universe and how the distances that separate everything are extremely massive and probably we will never know for sure what is out there. The world is fascinating, there are so many mysteries of this astonishing complex universe that I cannot comprehend how it all came to be

@nishantaggarwal2825 Год назад

In today's episode of "that useful information you didn't know where to get" I was looking for paper dimensions for printer setting for my business(printing on A4 would waste paper in my field) But this half fold thing simplifies things so much.

@ast8177 3 года назад

00:00 me: "Just a fun video about paper befor bed" 08:38 me: "WHY ARE WE HERE?, WHAT EVEN AM I?"

@talltomtube 3 года назад

You are, "Star Stuff." But, no idea why we are here.

@shoujahatsumetsu 3 года назад

@@talltomtube Plastic

@ahmadgames4u918 3 года назад

0:00 doesn't work only 0:01 works click 0:01

@ahmadgames4u918 3 года назад

Also try 08:37

@drakan4769 3 года назад

as he said, mostly nothing is what we are

@LisaWhelan 3 года назад

Grey making videos about weed: not high Grey making videos about paper: super high

@evandugas7888 3 года назад

Na this is some acid level stuff

@LocaLGh0sT 3 года назад

Both are required for the effect.

@208jdog 3 года назад

Paper can be made out of hemp

@wave1090 3 года назад

You do need both to roll a joint

@yelpkelp9134 3 года назад

He made a video about weed?

@fesheface Год назад

He is able to induce existential crisis to many people just from talking about a piece of paper

@RoTerra217 Год назад

Whimsical, ethereal thinking there. Nice going CGP Grey!

@otterstream1263 3 года назад

Thanks for this, grey, now I can’t look at a sheet of paper without having an existential crisis.

@CGPGrey 3 года назад

@edmundthespiffing2920 3 года назад

@@CGPGrey damn you

@legs3509 3 года назад

@@CGPGrey Grey i have a question. When is it too late to say “Yeetus to the fetus”?

@Adam-zt4cn 3 года назад

@@CGPGrey Wait, is that a PICTURE? In a RU-vid comment section?!

@sparklerabbit33 3 года назад

@Mek_T ඞ

@coltonme4304 3 года назад

grey 10 years ago: ‘here is how the UK works’ ‘here is how voting systems work’ grey now: ‘everything you know and love are but illusions that flicker in the dim light of a melancholy lightbulb that, like the universe, will one day fade’

@alanivar2752 3 года назад

Thanks to him, we're about to have Approval Voting in Denver

@aviratthakor8974 3 года назад

Artistic growth indeed

@GraemeLechner 3 года назад

Sounds like he watched Vsauce during that time. /hj

@davidsaltz2806 Год назад

Reminds me of "powers of ten"

@Garrett1986 Год назад

I was about to write that comment, then I thought, "Surely someone besides me remembers that film..." Very much presented in the style of Powers of Ten. Lovely work.

@Lickmuffin Год назад

Me: Just watched some Kurzgrsagt and now have existential dread. Grey: Hey, hold my paper.

@Racoonma392 Год назад

Ah yes, the 2 channels for existential crisis

@Leidon00 3 года назад

i thought this was gonna be about how brilliant Metric Paper design is. Still glad tho

@MrPercolator9000 3 года назад

it wasn't not that

@sp_1029 3 года назад

Its still that

@duckmasterflex 3 года назад

I thought it was going to aim for the golden ratio

@comradedogma4957 3 года назад

It does

@comradedogma4957 3 года назад

It does all of that

@suddenstorm8 3 года назад

Congratulations CGP Grey, you have now joined "Kurzgesagt - in a nutshell" on the list of RU-vid channels that can fill me with a sense of existential dread.

@Kriae 3 года назад

Vsauce is pretty much the king of that

@jtbk7199 3 года назад

We have found the holy trinity of mind fuckery

@saraqael. 3 года назад

You forgot the most important one: exurb1a

@rafliavriza3651 3 года назад

@@saraqael. the depression turtle can either fill you up with an existential dread so terrifying that death itself isn't enough to put it out, or a sense of unity for the better future of humanity that is yet to come

@StarsInYourMultitude 3 года назад

exurb1a causes the most existential dread

@chasegrebb7015 Год назад

This video is amazing! It embodies “as above, so below” to me.

@toasterwaffel2670 Год назад

We have a render distance

@katjawindle1016 3 года назад

Me: ah he’s probably gonna zoom back in and say something funny right at the end. Y’a know, lighten the mood? Grey: heh heh. No.

@annadaranjannandi5952 3 года назад

Yeah . So heart breaking

@Fluvance 3 года назад

"And if we keep going, at 250 doublings of a sheet of A4 paper, we reach the size of your mother." - Grey, probably

@katjawindle1016 3 года назад

@@Fluvance who am I to disagree with that joke, But I’d have to travel the world and the seven seas to reach grey and tell him. Everybody’s looking for something though, so perhaps the dark video is what someone wanted.

@Ratigan2 3 года назад

@@Fluvance please comment this.. i really want you to get 10 thousands likes for that.

@pallandoromestamo8861 3 года назад

Can we all take a moment to appreciate how well the voice is synced with the zooming?

@fisheatsyourhead 3 года назад

If you haven't listened to HI, he used to practice his scripts in an office with thunderstorms as background noise pacing back and forth and I know this one was at home but I can just imagine how strange this one would sound especially

@DorianC 3 года назад

At 3:55?

@cuberman5948 3 года назад

@duckles426 3 года назад

The speed of the zoom also changes a bit to sync up with his speech.

@THEFIRE360 3 года назад

Technically more so the other way around. Video is synced to audio

@annakareninacamara6580 Год назад

Whatever I was expecting by clicking a video about Metric Paper, it sure wasn't this.

@susanhillwig5784 Год назад

A couple of weeks ago, to celebrate our anniversary, my husband and I purchased 2 one-foot-square plots of land in Glencoe Wood, Scotland. When the certificates came in the mail -- declaring us to now be "Lord and Lady Vermillion" ☺ -- we noticed right away that the size was slightly different than the 8.5x11-inch letter size we're used to seeing. Having now watched your video here, I just went and measured them, comparing it to the measurements given at 0:30. Yep, A4. Our lord and lady titles are also the key to the universe. 😮

@knightshousegames 3 года назад

*About a minute in*: "Oh hey, I remember learning this in drafting class in high school." *At the end*: "What else did they neglect to tell me......?"

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад

I've seen a lot of RU-vid videos about things I learned in science class, or history class... never would have guessed drafting class would bring one of the most interesting of them all.